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Comments on: Good Bye And Good Riddance https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 16 May 2006 16:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6022 Tue, 16 May 2006 16:25:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6022 Extremely difficult to do, even in theory, and currently impossible as most companies designed their systems without consideration for tapping. There is a battle over regulations requiring companies to make it possible to tap the VoIP calls, and the companies are pushing back because it would be extremely expensive to design the changes.

Other than at the two end points the phone call is a series of chunks moving over the ‘Net by any available route. If you try intercepting anywhere other than the end points you are not going to get all of the call, just slices of sound.

]]> By: andante https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Tue, 16 May 2006 13:00:50 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6019 Somewhat OT, but –

We switched to digital phone service some time ago, and my very-limited understanding is that VoIP is difficult, if not impossible (depending on the company’s technology) to tap. True?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6006 Tue, 16 May 2006 04:41:26 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6006 Not consciously, but I know what’s possible.

Part of it is the old habit of law enforcement officers to have unlisted numbers, they tell you to do it in the academy.

]]> By: The CultureGhost https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6004 Tue, 16 May 2006 04:27:16 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6004 This isn’t your old tradecraft carried over to civilian life?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6001 Tue, 16 May 2006 04:01:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6001 There’s nothing wrong with caller-id, it’s just that the pre-paid don’t show as anything but a number because they aren’t in a directory with an associated name.

I recognize the numbers of friends and enemies, and some are in the internal memory of my phone, but nothing is available to any government agency.

]]> By: andante https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-6000 Tue, 16 May 2006 03:29:00 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/15/good-bye-and-good-riddance/#comment-6000 I have a TracFone for use mainly in emergencies; I bought it at the grocery store and pick up an occasional ‘minutes’ card when needed. These days, I’m seriously considering using it exclusively.

In defense of caller I.D., my life it a bit more peaceful now that I no longer answer calls that indicate “blocked”, or a phone-o-holic friend who always calls at dinner time to tell me nothing for twenty minutes.

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